Your help could further MMSA’s vision of a brighter STEM future for the State of Maine and the nation. Today, I ask you to support MMSA and become a part of the movement to support exciting new ways for our youth to learn about science, technology, engineering, and math.

Researchers

MMSA leads the way in STEM education and policy, both in school and outside of school. Our rich history of innovative initiatives includes a strong research focus. These research projects aim to strengthen rural STEM education, educator professional development, and the ways educators, students, and community members work together to implement STEM in Maine and nationwide.

WeatherBlur Next Generation is an exciting project funded by a three-year cyberlearning grant from the National Science Foundation. The project continues work by a previous WeatherBlur project to enhance understanding of how non-hierarchical online learning communities can enable deep, authentic community learning within co-created citizen science projects. The WeatherBlur program has ...Read More

At the US News STEM Solutions Conference in Baltimore in May 2016, it was announced that Downeast Maine will become part of a national network that shares and develops community-based strategies for connecting all youth to science. The movement toward STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) is already gaining momentum ...Read More